Has HD gaming gone a little too far?

Am i the only one that remember GameBoy Color? That was like Epic when it came out. Now we have these over priced games that are supposed to be "Like You're There" Honestly, if we were to get anymore high def than this we would have to be litterally in the game, and with the games i play i don't want that to happen.

I love the classics. I still play GTA 2 where it's still in a birds eye view, and every now and then i like to break out the Tony Hawk Pro Skater for my Playstation1 which somehow still works. I can't believe we have to pay $60 for some of these newer games, it's getting to be a little ridiculous. So, has the whole "HD" Thing gone a little too far?

No... I don't think so. The first time I saw some of my 360 and ps3 games in HD my jaw dropped and I wanted to dance like a little school girl...

I actually was thinking how amazing SFIV looks in HD. Just the opening video was incredible. Sure games maybe to expensive but that is why a lot of consumers wait for price drops and such.

Nope but i do like how TF2 looks. I prefer graphics like that instead of the usual kind.craigalan23

I agree. Team Fortress has a unique look too it. I think that HD gaming is important, as in Team Fortress has a simple style too it, but is rendered crisply and clearly.

I understand where TC is coming form on this. While I love the HD, almost cinema-like games like Gears, there is something to be said about the cheaper and simple games. I can still be just as entertained by Super Mariio World, an $8 game on the Wii, as I am with a $60 game. I'm not worried abotu it though. We have seen a resurgence in simple 2d and retro games, like Mega Man 9. Also, there will always be a market for those games on handheld consoles.

No. Not for PC gamers anyway. I wanted console titles such as Burnout 3 and FarCry Instincts to come to the PC just to play in a tighter resolution.

With the newer HD consoles, that is no longer an issue. Gamers win! :)

Sonny, i don't know where the hell you where getting n64 games for $70... eBay? bad idea

But heres another point if you are all like "snar snar snar wtf"

We Spend HELLS OF LOADS of money for all of this technology, guess who doesn't even have water filters? Or Law enforcments? Hospitals? So, here's my plan. XBOX 360 is nice, its a good way to relax, but if we stopped making XBOXs and Playstations and started using some of that money, and trust me if we stopped playing XBOX there would be a **** load of money left over, we could spend some of that on the people who dont even have clean water. Honestly i love my XBOX 360, i love gaming, i love doing nothing all day, but in a few months, (when i get all my **** together in this country) I am going down to africa to help the locals with getting clean water and teaching them about health and safey.. yeah.. All that extra pocket change that goes into making HD **** could be greatly used for other people, and people in africa would greatly appreciate the donation, trust me. I mean, just think about all the money you would still have if we just sticked with n64 or playstation 1.

PS: We could still use the XBOXs that we've already made, but stop the production of more XBOXs and Playstations. I wouldn'ts want to make anyone cry by running into their house and stealing their xbox, that ****s expensive.

Wow! That was a sharp abstract turn to the left. lol

:D

Don't forget that Game Boy games cost $30 when they were new, just like DS games do now. SNES games back in the day were $50. I'll chalk up that extra $10 to inflation and say the cost of hi-def isn't really that much.

I think it has run out of places to go, a little like Hollywood but on a smaller scale. That may be why we're seeing more revivals of past games. I believe that the game studios are forcing each into though, a bit like the keeping up with the Jones' idea.

Sonny, i don't know where the hell you where getting n64 games for $70... eBay? bad idea

But heres another point if you are all like "snar snar snar wtf"

We Spend HELLS OF LOADS of money for all of this technology, guess who doesn't even have water filters? Or Law enforcments? Hospitals? So, here's my plan. XBOX 360 is nice, its a good way to relax, but if we stopped making XBOXs and Playstations and started using some of that money, and trust me if we stopped playing XBOX there would be a **** load of money left over, we could spend some of that on the people who dont even have clean water. Honestly i love my XBOX 360, i love gaming, i love doing nothing all day, but in a few months, (when i get all my **** together in this country) I am going down to africa to help the locals with getting clean water and teaching them about health and safey.. yeah.. All that extra pocket change that goes into making HD **** could be greatly used for other people, and people in africa would greatly appreciate the donation, trust me. I mean, just think about all the money you would still have if we just sticked with n64 or playstation 1.

PS: We could still use the XBOXs that we've already made, but stop the production of more XBOXs and Playstations. I wouldn'ts want to make anyone cry by running into their house and stealing their xbox, that ****s expensive.

Drunkenmunkey15

Not gonna happen in capitalist America. The Western World is about consumerism. And besides, there are other industries we could cut funding to in order to get money for the third world other than HD gaming. I mean, that's kinda a small niche industry. And I think it's kinda sad to see technology grind to a halt for that reason when money could come from other sources.

We Spend HELLS OF LOADS of money for all of this technology, guess who doesn't even have water filters? Or Law enforcments? Hospitals?

Drunkenmunkey15

You can say that about any consumer luxury. As long as Americans are not living in high-rise biodome filing cabinents, do have any sort of entertainment, and are producing any sort of art, then yeah, those are resources that we could have given away to the third world. Except...not really. You're proceeding under the assumption that there are a finite number of resources available in the US (or any first-world country), and if we're using them for something here, that's money that could have been spent abroad. The economy is much more complicated than that. If everyone in the US stopped buying home electronics, and just gave all that money to Africa, thousands of people in many countries would suddenly be out of jobs. Tax revenues would decrease, and government foreign aid packages would decrease markedly. I've only had an introduction to economics at a college level, so I don't really claim to understand all this, but I know it's not anywhere near as simple as you're making it out to be.

There's also the notion (that I accept) that videogames are a form of art, and part of our cultural heritage. Instead of writing The Illiad, Homer could have gone and done humanitarian work in Asia Minor.

EDIT: Oh, right. I forgot to answer the thread creator's question. No, I don't think HD is going too far. I like games to look as good as they can.

Well, i'll give you that, but if stuck with the simple pixels the game costs would have gone down. I mean its like every 2 years we have some new fantastic console. That means new types of games, plus the manufacturing of the old games, that means making games up the ass, which means things will become out of date, old games will stop being made because people are all about new games and the new games will make all the money. If we kept buying old games we wouldn't have to spend money on the new console to play the new games, and we could just keep our little set up and spend the $20 to $30 on older games. I mean we only pay so much for these games because we're willing to. If nobody bought the games the prices would go down.Drunkenmunkey15

are you saying we should just stop making new games? because thats how i understood this statement, and if so you are just not that bright

Am i the only one that remember GameBoy Color? That was like Epic when it came out. Now we have these over priced games that are supposed to be "Like You're There" Honestly, if we were to get anymore high def than this we would have to be litterally in the game, and with the games i play i don't want that to happen.

I love the classics. I still play GTA 2 where it's still in a birds eye view, and every now and then i like to break out the Tony Hawk Pro Skater for my Playstation1 which somehow still works. I can't believe we have to pay $60 for some of these newer games, it's getting to be a little ridiculous. So, has the whole "HD" Thing gone a little too far?

Am i the only one that remember GameBoy Color? That was like Epic when it came out. Now we have these over priced games that are supposed to be "Like You're There" Honestly, if we were to get anymore high def than this we would have to be litterally in the game, and with the games i play i don't want that to happen.

I love the classics. I still play GTA 2 where it's still in a birds eye view, and every now and then i like to break out the Tony Hawk Pro Skater for my Playstation1 which somehow still works. I can't believe we have to pay $60 for some of these newer games, it's getting to be a little ridiculous. So, has the whole "HD" Thing gone a little too far?

Drunkenmunkey15

HD gone too far? I think not. The Wii is not HD, and House of the Dead: Overkill is $59.99 at EBgames where I live. The cost of a game has nothing to do with the graphic quality. Sorry, but I completely disagree with everything you have said.

Yeah but we said that when the xbox came out. "IT CANT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS"

and then we said "THE NEXT GENERATION IS GONNA FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IN THE GAME".

Now we already said both of those things to the 360 and PS3. There will always be more and more advanced technologies coming out. At this point it is far far far far from reality

Now we have these over priced games that are supposed to be "Like You're There" Honestly, if we were to get anymore high def than this we would have to be litterally in the gameDrunkenmunkey15

What is wrong with that? I've been waiting for them to come out with virtual reality forever. I'm beginning to think I won't live long enough to see it, though. :(

I remeber when i had my PS2 and the 360 came out and i was dieing to get one.

but i got it 3 years later. And now the graphics are the same as i thought they were on PS2. Wonder how theyll get better next gen?

The problem lies with so many developers using pretty graphics as an excuse to churn out lackluster games. I'm not saying that games like Crysis have lackluster gameplay, but I've never heard anything positive about that game that didn't relate to visuals. You can talk about UE3's graphical power all you want, but we've all seen how flawed that engine is when it comes to data streaming and other tech factors that are the real make-or-break aspects. Apart from being a much more satisfying entertainment experience, the gameplay a.k.a. actual involvment is what seperates video games apart from motion pictures.

I would not point to inflation for the $60 XBOX games. You would have a better change arguing for the added content, but I remember my old Coleco Vision games being $45 to $50 and this was back in the early 1980's. Games have been around this price, with a few exceptions*, for what...20 years?

*Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis was over $100

*Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo was close to $80.

*Final Fantasy III on the Super Nintendo was around $60 to 70$.

I will honestly rather pay 60 dollars for a good game than a dollar for a game that looks so bad that i cant even play italvin201

I kind of understand where the OP is coming from.

HOWEVER, I don't mind paying the 60 bucks if it's for a game I KNOW will be amazing to play in HD. (Resident Evil 5)

With the costs as high as they are these days when it comes to developing games as well as production costs we are lucky that its just $60 per game.

Am i the only one that remember GameBoy Color? That was like Epic when it came out. Now we have these over priced games that are supposed to be "Like You're There" Honestly, if we were to get anymore high def than this we would have to be litterally in the game, and with the games i play i don't want that to happen.

I love the classics. I still play GTA 2 where it's still in a birds eye view, and every now and then i like to break out the Tony Hawk Pro Skater for my Playstation1 which somehow still works. I can't believe we have to pay $60 for some of these newer games, it's getting to be a little ridiculous. So, has the whole "HD" Thing gone a little too far?

Drunkenmunkey15

what? do you even know what "HD" means? and there is no point of getting larger definitions unless the TV size is bigger. (example, a 32" TV WON'T look any different with 1080p then with 720p.) Therefore, this topic makes neer to no sense.